Handling Capacity Requirements

The exponential growth of the Internet has created significant challenges for Web administrators, including the following:

  • Verifying the constant availability of WWW and FTP services

  • Distributing Internet services across globally dispersed data centers

  • Maximizing performance of Internet services

  • Reducing costs associated with providing distributed Internet services

  • Redirecting client traffic away from offline servers to online servers

The conventional solution to resolving capacity requirements has been simply to replace an existing server with a bigger and faster model or to add server capacity. However, multiple hardware and software solutions provide a more cost-effective and advantageous approach. The following ...

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